I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had…

- Peter Temple

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

- Peter Temple

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

- Peter Temple

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks…

- Peter Temple

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

- Peter Temple

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

- Peter Temple

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

- Peter Temple

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

- Peter Temple

In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime…

- Peter Temple